Immersed in anew mistress

By Mark Heathcote

Wed, 18 Jun 2008
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Night is a nicotine patch
A burnish of black leather
A bleeding scratch
On the naked nether

It is altogether a womb
A giants eyelid blinking
A mammoth’s bog tomb
Glinting of times eroding

Sleep navigates its marshes
Through nightmare forest
Crawling into its sedges?
Standing fearfully deforest

Legs trembling in coyness
Light is again touched
And rousingly it is loved
Immersed in anew mistress

Certificate 15
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Comments

Submitted by jennifer on
I particularly like the opening stanza: 'Night is a nicotine patch A burnish of black leather A bleeding scratch On the naked nether' Superb, rhythmically and rhymically (?) (Making up words as usual!) However, I feel that punctuation would help in the reading...